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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 1982
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes: 2
Average Episode Running Times: 75 mins
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Columbia Pictures Television / Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions / Rosemont Productions Limited
Producer: Norman Rosemont

SCRIPT
Script: John Gay
Novel: Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

DIRECTION
Directors: Michael Tuchner, Alan Hume (uncredited)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Alan Hume
Lighting: Lee Lighting Ltd

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Keith Palmer

MUSIC
Music: Ken Thorne

SOUND
Supervising Sound Editor: John Ireland

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Phyllis Dalton

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Quasimodo Special Effects Make Up Designer: Nick Maley
Special Make Up Effects Crew: Gloria Maley, Marian Nicholson (both uncredited)

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Garth Inns

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: John Stoll

STUNTS
Stunt Arranger: Alf Joint
Stunts: Stuart St. Paul

CASTING
Casting: Irene Lamb

CAST
Anthony Hopkins (Quasimodo)
Derek Jacobi (Dom Claude Frollo)
David Suchet (Clopin Trouillefou)
Gerry Sundquist (Pierre Gringoire)
Tim Pigott-Smith (Philippe)
John Gielgud (Charmolue)
Robert Powell (Phoebus)
Lesley-Anne Down (Esmeralda)
Nigel Hawthorne (magistrate)
Roland Culver (Bishop of Paris)
Rosalie Crutchley (Simone)
David Kelly (tavern keeper)
Joseph Blatchley (Albert)
Dave Hill (Coppenhole)
Donald Eccles (Judge)
Timothy Bateson (Commerce)
Jack Klaff (officer)
Timothy Morand (Maurice)
Martin Carroll (Herald)
Hugo De Vernier (nobility)
Eunice Black (clergy)
Kenny Baker (pick pocket)
Michael Burrell (clerical aide)
Antony Carrick (auditor)
John Kidd (1st physician)
Stanley Lebor (torturer)
Norman Lumsden (King's attorney)
John Rutland (2nd old man)
Wally Thomas (1st old man)
Alan Webb (judge at Quasimodo's trial - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

The horribly deformed hunchback Quasimodo lives a lonely existence in the bell tower of Notre Dame's cathedral in Paris. One day he meets the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda and falls hopelessly in love with her, though her affections are for a handsome young soldier. But an angry a mob believe that Esmerelda is a witch and threaten to burn her at the stake – and it's down to the feared and misunderstood Quasimodo to rescue her.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Television Distributors: CBS Television; Columbia TriStar Domestic Television; Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions; Sony Pictures Television (2002 - )
Video Distributor: Vidmark Entertainment

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: PG

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Dzwonnik z Notre Dame - Polish title
Der Glöckner von Notre Dame - West German title
Hunchback
Notre Damen kellonsoittaja
- Finnish title

AWARDS

1982
Emmy Awards, USA

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special (Anthony Hopkins) - nominated

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Big Man on Campus (1989)
The Darling of Paris (1917)
Esmeralda (1905)
The Hunchback (1997)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1977)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Nanbanji no semushi-otoko (1957)
Notre Dame de Paris (1956)
Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999)

KEYWORDS

bell ringers, book into film, cathedrals, gypsies, hunchback

 


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